So one of my climbing buddy's is heading off for 2 years and his one departing wish was to head out on a big wall and stay on the ledge. I decided the easiest way to fulfil his requests was to head to Staughton Vale for a night of ledge happiness.

We set up and settled in for the night, enjoying the stars, Kingston bikkies and the host of nocturnal creatures. I couldn't believe how many bats there were, along with growling Koalas and mosquitos... They were everywhere! When we called it a night I put the Kingstons in my mates sleeping bag bag and hung it from the daisy chains, conveniently, next to my head. I then fell asleep only to be woken some time later by freaking weird & furious movements coming from the bag containing the Kingstons. I was a little freaked and thought it might have been a possum looking for blood so woke Jake and made him look in the bag. My thinking was that I, as the driver, should be protected from any angry possum so I could drive Jake to the Hospital. He readily agreed and looked in the bag only to find it empty. He mocked me! I calmed my nerves, moved the bag and fell back asleep. A few hours later it happened again only this time I grabbed the bag and looked inside to find a cute little bat happily nibbling on a Kingston... We ended up losing 4 Kingstons to the crazy little creatures of the night, which amazes me as the bats were tiny, and a Kingston, while small, is nothing like bats usual fare.

Glazed rope; I pulled out my all round rope, mainly used for TR and jugging practice, and found it glazed along one half of it. Last week I was cutting laps jugging and rapping hauling Boogie til you puke, which I've done previously, though the big difference was this time I was wearing gloves and found the first few raps were much faster than usual. I noticed a little glazing and so slowed down but was surprised to find so much glazing along so much rope.

I don't use this rope for anything more than TR and jugging practice, though my question to you more advanced Chockstoners is this; is my rope still ok for TR and Jugging or would you retire it completely?

Sundry silliness; There are a few carrots scattered around climbs on the crag though I was surprised this time to find a number of carrots set into depressions throughout the crag. These bolts are placed in such a way that they load your biner across the edge. They're that badly placed you can't even girth hitch them with a sling. Pics to follow.

They don't look altogether too old. Does anyone know how long they've been there?

EDIT: Corrected rapping to hauling. And jugging backup/rap device is a Grigri 2.

>>Glazed rope; I pulled out my all round rope, mainly used for TR and jugging>practice, and found it glazed along one half of it. Last week I was cutting>laps jugging and rapping Boogie til you puke, which I've done previously,>though the big difference was this time I was wearing gloves and found>the first few raps were much faster than usual. I noticed a little glazing

Miguel,

I hope you were running your rope through your own quick draw carabinas, rather than wearing out the in situ rings. Otherwise, I know what caused your "glazing"

On 6/03/2013 JDB wrote:>>>>Glazed rope; I pulled out my all round rope, mainly used for TR and jugging>>practice, and found it glazed along one half of it. Last week I was cutting>>laps jugging and rapping Boogie til you puke, which I've done previously,>>though the big difference was this time I was wearing gloves and found>>the first few raps were much faster than usual. I noticed a little glazing>>>Miguel,>> I hope you were running your rope through your own quick draw carabinas,>rather than wearing out the in situ rings. Otherwise, I know what caused>your "glazing"

Let me try again, but this time as a question: Miguel, I hope you were running your rope through your own quick draw carabinas?(rather than wearing out the in situ rings)

>Let me try again, but this time as a question: Miguel, I hope you were>running your rope through your own quick draw carabinas?(rather than wearing>out the in situ rings)

JDB - Miguel75 would have to be the nicest, least intruding, conscientious climber I have come across. He probably even pads the bolts before attaching his quickdraws. I would bet both nuts that he didn't TR straight off the rings.